Descr. Plant a foot to eighteen inches high, erect, branched ; 
branches knotted at the joints, nearly terete, clothed, as well as 
the leaves and all the herbaceous part of the plant, with spread- 
ing, ferruginous hairs, most copious on the young foliage. 
Leaves on rather short petioles, opposite, very unequal in size ; 
one of each pair large, ovate, acuminate; the opposite one very 
much smaller and subrotund; all of them are strongly and 
somewhat duplicato-serrate, and very unequal at their base. Pe- 
duncles solitary, axillary, bearing a somewhat capitate cluster of 
three to five bracteated flowers, one of each cluster only opening 
at atime. Outer dractee concealing the flower-buds and calyces 
of the fully-expanded flowers, linear-lanceolate, coarsely serrated, 
erecto-patent. Calycine dracteas two, opposite, erect, more than 
half as long as the calyx, entire. Calyx deeply cut into five 
erect, lanceolate, almost hispid segments, somewhat unequal. 
Corolla large, handsome, deep purple. Zuse between cylindrical 
and funnel-shaped. Zim oblique, large, of five nearly regular, 
subrotund, emarginate, and crisped spreading Jodes. Stamens 
quite included within the tube, two long and two short: all four 
have oblong-ovate, one-celled, perfect anthers. Ovary oblong- 
cylindrical, seated on a large, fleshy, orange-coloured disc. Style 
very long, curved. Stigma subulate. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and its bracts. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil:—magnified. 
